Oh my God.. Oh sure j4. Just watch this film and it is a piece of cake to build. Yeah rite.
Keep in mind now. 42 years since I touched one of these black rifles.
I begged Pirate for the instruction manual. He said he threw it out.
Getting the mag in was easy. Then I could not remember how the hell it released. I just kept pushing buttons till it fell out.
The bolt. No problem. We "25 year Gunny D.I. Marine" and me took it apart.
He is coming back today and we are putting it back together. Sober this time.
I bought C mags 5.45.. Four of us had too sit on the damn thing to get the rounds in. I beat the last four in with a hammer.
Maybe it was the wrong mag. Hell I dont know, they fit anyway.
Today the Gunny is going to help us figure out how to work the adjustable rear stock.
We pulled and pulled and it wont stretch. Stuck it is I guess.
I am calling Pirate today. I want my instruction manual.

"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781

the only problem i have with building any AR is that tiny flea sized spring loaded retaining pin that keeps the front pivot pin in place sometimes shoots into outer space.

i am too cheap to buy that $8 tool and insist on making it work with a buck knife!

the next sometimes problem is getting the barrel nut in time with the gas tube-- on a few upper builds it seems the bolt will either be loose and match up to the gas tube or be tight and have a barrel nut lug either warping the gas tube or blocking it--

i have only encountered this once though. if you get an assembled upper this ain't going to be a problem.

you don't even have to have the proper tools. common tools like channel lock pliers can be used to assemble a normal kit that has the upper with the barrel installed.

let me see if i can find you a link to the tec manual--http://www.quarterbore.com/library/pdfindex.html

What I like about building one yerself is that you can spend as little or as much on it as you want and build it as fast or as slow as you want to depending on some of the furnature pieces you want on it or what type of barrel you want along with sights n trigger kits.....my 1st build is just an M4gery and it took me a couple months just because money was tight. My 2nd build took about 3 months because of the fancy stuff I had put on it.

-“Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.” - John Wayne
-“Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home” - John Wayne
-"This world is rough and if a man wants to make it he's gotta be tough" - Johnny Cash

What I like about building one yerself is that you can spend as little or as much on it as you want and build it as fast or as slow as you want to depending on some of the furnature pieces you want on it or what type of barrel you want along with sights n trigger kits.....my 1st build is just an M4gery and it took me a couple months just because money was tight. My 2nd build took about 3 months because of the fancy stuff I had put on it.

i like shopping around on my builds too. i just ordered two of those excellent dsa lowers. don't know what kind of builds i will use them for yet. probably be well into next year before i get one of them built.

i generally don't buy a full fledged "kit" cause i like certain bolt carrier groups and most kit deals i find come with more of a generic BCG. i also like certain barrels but i an not as picky about barrels as BCGs.

when i shop around i can scrounge the parts i want for just a little over what a packaged "kit" would cost.